all right so we're supposed to talk about food maybe we'll get a call back saying hey you're not you're not talking about food
um
no no you can talk about anything you want these these things are just suggestions
yeah
oh golly well i live in Dallas what what area do you live in
uh North Carolina
North Carolina oh really
it is boring here
oh really well
boring
in the Carolinas they did have uh
huh and Jimmy Baker
um yes yes we're
he's he's not a subject of great pride
oh yes it's it's one of our prouder right along with Jessie Helms
oh yeah
i think i think they were pardon the phrase all in bed together or something
twins separated at birth kind of thing
yeah
somebody somebody let the brains run out on the floor though
somebody dropped that baby when it was born oh
yeah
oh man Jim Bakker oh what a what a dangerous individual
i i i know uh how how did Jessie Helms get reelected that's that's what i want to know
that's a well that's a good question um
what does he do does he just do the people the are there just stupid people where you live or something okay
yeah basically yeah yeah that's
well
that's that's most of it and he plays very heavily on the race issue
oh yeah
and it's still that's still a big thing here in this backwards state
yeah
that's too bad because i mean i've been in the Carolinas and you know there are some places in the Carolinas it's really nice there
uh-huh yeah my favorite place is Ashville it's right over there in the mountains it's a beautiful place
in like
yeah
yeah
it's just that you know i mean if you took all the people out of the state it would be a great place
yeah
these folks are so backwards it's just ridiculous it's pathetic
i i know i think literacy probably the biggest problem there
yeah and i i mean the papers are just full of all of this stuff about the educational system they've been changing their standards and this that and the other and claiming this is going to make everything better
yeah
uh Durham the county right next to us big city
yeah
had an enormous jump in the uh in the SAT rate
oh really
and everybody was huh
how'd they do that
oh let me guess what they did they had classes on the SAT
oh no it was even worse than that they falsified the data
oh really
oh Plano Plano started having
yeah just just students
Plano actually they went out and they had the where where i live they had the they had the classes on the SAT i've never heard anything so preposterous in my life
they're preparing people for the test by having a class specifically for the test how ridiculous i mean of course it has the highest
right
SAT rate well it also has the highest teen suicide rate too so i mean that and this is national i don't know where it's all going to where it's all going to go
oh well
i don't know
i don't i don't know what's i mean public education is just going down the tubes i mean they're throwing more and more money at it and it just seems to be getting worse and worse
yeah
and you know what's bad i mean like i'm going into you know an education related field and i just you know it just
you know it really kills me you know i mean it's it it really is a shame that you know you know United States somehow we spend more money on each student
and the teachers are paid so little i mean i mean how do how do they figure that out
oh yeah
i don't know that's that's the one thing that i've i've never been able to figure out why you can pay garbage men more than you can pay teachers
yeah
um
well the prestige of being a teacher is also pretty nil well i think a lot of that has to do with the fact that they say well since this is a woman dominated field we can treat them like dirt you know
oh yeah
yeah i guess
that that that must be the rationale for for where it comes from United States
it it must be i bet you know i i i'm not knocking the garbage men i mean they're necessary but there's a lot of unemployed people out there who would gladly take jobs as garbage men rate for less money
yeah
hey that's a
hey that's a hard job to get really
it is
in in in Texas in Texas it's hard because it's almost like a father to son thing
yeah well it's it's it's hard in New York too and i mean they get paid twenty eight thousand a year to start
gee that's that's ridiculous
and teachers only get paid twenty four
man i'd carry garbage for twenty eight thousand a year
you bet you
you bet you
man i worked as a welder and i was you don't even get paid that much
man i'd i'd go out and dump garbage all the time for that kind of money
yeah
good exercise you get outside
shoot
yep
you have dogs are your friends knock over a can now and then and leave it open for the dogs you know
well
ah that's what my that's what my garbage man does
i went out the other morning and my my garbage can was sitting in the middle of my driveway
jeez i get tired of this i've got a there's a nice little wooden platform out there for the garbage cans and then they throw them anywhere they want to
yeah yeah
and sometimes they don't even take everything that that's the biggest kick
oh
so you live in the Carolinas huh
the Carolinas
uh
do much skiing
no i'm not i'm not a fool
oh okay
uh
i i'm i'm not really impressed with i mean i lived in Germany for three years i i was i'm not impressed with skiing now i like
i like other
you know winter sports but i'm not real thrilled about them
i i it's okay to watch people go out and break their legs but i'm not going to climb on a couple of pieces of wood and go racing down a slick mountain side i mean that's
i've got better things to do with my life
uh
when i uh when i was uh stationed in England i used the opportunity to travel around Europe a lot and one of my favorite places to go was Switzerland
uh-huh
uh-huh
and it was just great to sit out there in uh Zurich or Bern just sit in the sidewalk cafes
oh yeah the cafe um my my wife her favorite actually she was stationed at in in Germany with me too and
and
uh
she she fell in love with Salzburg Austria
yeah Salzburg nice Austria nice Europe is nice
well well it's well it's such a it's it's it makes the Germans look like slobs i mean Austria and Switzerland do both but
yeah
yeah really i mean Switzerland is so clean
oh
not even a scrap of paper on the ground you know
well they have these there these real like real strict laws you know they have to hose down the streets like every every other day or something
yeah
yeah that it's
pretty ridiculous
i loved it there though
yeah
i loved it
yeah i did i did like the food in Germany it was pretty good
um well i i like Europe
except for Belgium
yeah i i'm i really don't know what the Belgians i mean they have
do they really have an identity or i mean i think they have they have an identity crisis a lot of these countries they they really don't know you know what supposed to do
no
yeah i think i do because
half of them are yeah half of them are Middle Eastern and the other half are French Expatriates
yeah
um-hum
and since i hate the French anyway
the Belgians try to act like the French
yeah
and i it was just miserable i hated that place
i hate it almost as much as i do France
oh my wife and i we had it when we drove through France
we paid in tolls to go to Spain
and we drove from Germany like the southern southwestern most part of Germany
we drove on the tolls and we spent forty six dollars in tolls one way oh and it was like uh it was
yeah
it was about an eighteen nineteen hour drive
sure
oh God what a headache what a pain in the butt and
yeah
and the fuel was so expensive i mean i i just i can't believe i mean when we when we came back on our way back i mean
well my wife and i we first we were in Barcelona and we bought like we found this really great cafe that it was like a delicatessen
um-hum
and we like we bought we filled a full a cooler full of food of all this delicatessen food and then
we ate it all the way going up to the France because the food was so so bad and then when we came into Germany i had five centime left i mean that's like that's that's five one hundredths of a franc which is worth
yeah
it it was probably worth about a twentieth of a penny and and i mean i i i just about kissed the guard i mean when i got there he was like i was like we're so happy to see you he's like you're sort of knew why
yeah couldn't even use it
yeah really i used to take the ferry over from Dover over to Calais and and drive across France uh horrible i only did that one time
yeah yeah i i've done that before
uh-huh
what
well actually actually i've gone where were you stationed at in England
uh Mildenhall
oh really i was um i was TDY at Bent Waters
oh good old Bent Waters
for a little while
yeah my brother my brother was stationed at Bent Waters for a long time
yeah that's a nice place
yeah
Bent Waters is a is a very nice little place nice little base out in the country
yeah
nobody messes with them a lot Mildenhall was pretty uh
well it was big and it got a lot of attention
yeah
but uh
yeah Bent Waters Upper Hafford
all those neat little places that's where i really wanted to be
hum
yeah my my brother got stationed eventually at Oxbridge
he he really enjoyed it there and well well his his wife was British so they had
oh Oxbridge yeah
they had quite a good time
yeah Oxbridge is nice
ah everywhere in England is nice
i mean
a lot of the people i mean it's funny they're just
i don't know the standard of living is not as high as you would expect you would think
but on the other hand it's it's in a way it's better
yeah
that what t hat's what i like about it for one thing everything was cheap
yeah
um
i mean i can still remember going going to the store and getting a pint of milk a pound of butter and a loaf of bread and getting change back from my pound
yeah
you know you can't even buy a loaf of bread in this country
